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Oh, yes. I'll let you know about my clients' books, too. But I'll disclose that my clients are my clients. ... they wouldn't want it any other way.

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In Piecesby Sally FieldRaise your hand if you thought Sally Field might be the one person on the planet who had been blessed with a perfect set of life circumstances. Me, either.

Her lifelong challenges were as real and profoundly disturbing as those of many other people. The good news is that Sally's wisdom and self-awareness turned her experiences into a candid, compelling memoir that all of her fans -- as well as everyone who appreciates autobiographies, as I do -- should read. Candid and compelling, "In Pieces" is a story that deserved to be told, and Sally should be gratified that she had the ability to tell it so well. Solid, poignant writing by a gifted and highly skilled actor. She is as good at parsing words as she is at working a stage (and screen).

How can catatonia be a major psychiatric illness when no-one
knows what it is? Could it be that psychiatry has lost touch with the real
mental disorders? The question is important because catatonia is probably more
treatable than anything else in psychiatry. And it affects one patient in every
ten with a serious illness — but first it has to be recognized.
It is not a form of “schizophrenia,” and does not respond
well to the anti-schizophrenic drugs that many doctors might be inclined to use.
In his novel, The Winter Soldier, Daniel Mason writes of a World War I
soldier's body that is curled up among a pile of roots: "Alive...But it
doesn’t move. It doesn’t speak." The fictional soldier's body only
twitches when someone touches his shoulder. "The man’s eyes were wide, his
nose flared, as he tried to take in breath. But no words, nothing save the
flinch, the stare," the novel continues.
That is a fair description of catatonia, a bodily condition.
Staring,…

I'm a book publicist. That means that, in many ways, my job is a dream come true. I get paid to read books and, frequently, the books that I promote are books that I'd want to read even if I weren't getting paid to read them.
That said, I read more than my share of books that are not written by clients. Some of these books are too good to not share.
As I find gems, I'll post them here.
Oh, yes. And as I come across great books by clients, I'll let you know about those, too. I'll always tell you when I book I'm blogging about has been written by a client, though. That's only fair, I think.
If you'd like your book to be reviewed, feel free to email me at stacey at bookpr dot com.